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Not sure about all the negative feedback on Richards Microfit. I bought a Culbertson prone stock from them a couple of years ago, and though it did take a couple of months to get it, it's pretty much as-advertised. More recently - late last summer - I ordered a couple of sporter stocks from...

Louis, The angled port was what NesikaChad was referring to when he said they tilted the barrel 2* off axis. That's something I never thought about before drilling the port in a 28" 6.5mm bbl. I just finished contouring & chambering for a DPMS AR10 in 6.5x47. I set it up as level as I could...

We usually go to SHOT every other year - that's often enough to satisfy my curiousity about what's new, though I wouldn't mind seeing friends who attend every year. Seems the older I get, the less tolorance I have for crowds, and Lord knows, SHOT attracts a pretty large crowd (thankfully). It's...

I just purchased my 1st Burris scope a couple of weeks ago - got a Euro Diamond 1.5-6x40 to go on a 6.8 SPC AR15 carbine. I'm impressed with the brightness, clarity, & contrast of the optics; not as impressed with the mushy clicks on the turrets. But since I don't expect to be clicking this...

N150 works well with 155-175gr. bullets in a 308. Check Viht's website for recommended loading data.

Jerry, Thanks for posting that link. I'm one of the many shooters who've been using moly & wax (since 1995), and have tired of the labor-intensive process. Reading Kevin Thomas's article on moly & barrel life in PS a few years ago had raised a good deal of doubt as to whether moly was worth the...

Lee, I've got a BAT 3L that I've been very pleased with. I was somewhat concerned about the steeper cocking ramp that comes with a 3 lug action, thinking the extra effort required to open the bolt might disturb one's prone position or the rifle on the bags when shooting off a bench. I needn't...

Lee, I've been playing with a DPMS AR10 with a 28" Krieger 1:8 bbl. that I contoured & chambered for the 6.5x47. With under 100rds. through this beast, I'm impressed with the cartridge, and absolutely will be chambering a bbl. for it on a bolt rifle in the near future. Note that I've got rifles...

Steve, I've got a 30", 1:8.5tw 6.5x55AI bbl. for my BAT 3LL that's giving results very close to yours with H4831. The lot I'm currently shooting was old stuff packaged in a plastic bag and then boxed in a Hodgdon box, just like a lot of the old H322 was. The receipt was dated 1978, so I'm hoping...

Lee, I had (still have all three of 'em) three Dashers before I built myself a 6x47. The Dashers all shot very well right off the bat - very little load development or tweaking was needed to get excellent 600yd. accuracy out of them. That sorta spoiled me I think, as that 1st 6x47 took a bit...

I've just gotten a custom AR10 with a 28" Krieger in 6.5x47L up & running, and am impressed with it so far. I like what I've seen out of this cartridge enough to realize that down the road, I'm going to have to chamber a Palma bbl. for it for a bolt rifle. I have 6.5x55 & 6.5x55 AI barrels...

A friend bought one of the 16x40 Grizzlys last year and asked me to come down to help him select tooling for it. I went down and showed him how to cut threads with it, and was impressed with its rigidity & smoothness, compared to my 2000lb. 13x40 chicom. I had been in the market for a 2nd...

I believe long rear-entry action wrenches spread the load out over more area, and should decrease the chance of distorting the action if the shooter gets a little heavy-handed on a switch-barrel rig. I use the heavy-duty Brownells wrench for breaking OEM factory bbls. loose, and rear-entry...

I've been using small, solid carbide bars from Micro 100 & Circle - they both offer them in a range of sizes suitable for a variety of chambers. These are somewhat fragile bars - if you run one of them into the end of the chamber, they'll usually snap into pieces. That's not necessarily a bad...

I've got a Kowa 661 purchased for NRA highpower shooting. The angled eyepiece scopes are the only way to go for prone shooting, but aren't as easy to line up on something you've picked out with the naked eye or binocs, and want to take a closer look at. For that, a straight eyepiece body is much...

Forget the Eggos - buy Wheaties! Cold cereal & two pieces of toast - that's the breakfast of champions! (Somebody's got to help us eat all the wheat we grow out here!)

Like several other shooters on this thread, I like the 6.5x55. I looked long & hard at the numbers while trying to make a decision on which 6.5 cartridge to go with while waiting on a 30" Krieger 1:8 tw. std Palma blank to arrive. Compared the 6.5x284, 6.5x55 & Ackley Imp, and 260 Rem/6.5-08...

Have you seen problems with the 1:9 in 7mm? All three of my 284 Win bbls. are 1:9, and give excellent results with Berger or JLK 180VLDs at 1000yds. Bryan Litz's ballistics program includes the ability to solve for stability factor, and gives a factor of 1.48 for the 180VLD at 2900fps out of a...

German, That's a pretty good common-sense approach IMHO. We've shot several LR practical/tactical matches down at the Hutch range over the past year, which have attracted some of the guys who shoot tactical & 3-gun IPSC-type matches. One of them is shooting a 308 I built for him with an AAC...

I bought a Jet heavy 13x40 single phase lathe late in 2005, and started having motor problems a little under a year later. After a couple of months fiddling with new starter contact points & etc., I scrapped the chicom POS and replaced it with a US Motors 3hp 3-phase, powered by a...